Nyonton Denies MVTC’s Degree Status
By Domingo Dargbeh
Deputy Youth and Sports Minister, Laraamand Shenkin Nyonton, has denied the proposed degree grating status to the Monrovia Vocational Training Center (MVTC).
Nyonton is Youth and Sports Deputy Minister for Technical Vocational Education Training (TVET).
He responded to Representative Sekou Kanneh’s bill seeking to grant the MVTC’s a bachelor degree granting status.
Kanneh is Montserrado County Electoral District #2 Representative at the 55th Legislature.
The bill which he introduced recently, aims to grant Bsc level to MVTC is waiting to be pass by members of the senate.
But in response, Nyonton said, there is no need to grant Bsc status to MVTC.
He argued that a number of vocational institutions in the country have limited budget support, lack of infrastructure development.
“The only way to resolve the limited budget support is to pass the TVET Commission Bill.
Nyonton said that the bill does not meet the current reality, and therefore, the senate will not pass such a bill, “because it is not in the interest of the country. We don’t need more institutions to burden our national envelope.”
He said to improve “our services delivery, and ensure our people have quality education from the already existing institutions, we have to advocate for budgetary allotments.”
The bill was not adequately informed by an imperial data. This means, the ministry that provides oversight for MVTC was not contacted about conversation concerning the submission of the bill.
On the challenges of the institution, Nyonton said that out of 1,427 students that were enrolled when he assumed the leadership, only 227 students paid their fees to continue the program.
He added: “We could not put the delinquent students out of the school, but to find funding for them. This simply happened because politicians, who were seeking elections did not live up to their respective promises to those students.”